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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Age 51 – Died 01/12/2023
CHAPEL HILL – Marc Aaron Sloop, 51, of Chapel Hill, died Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, at UNC Medical Center. He had fiercely and with great humor and spirit battled cancer for four years. In the end he was felled painlessly by a stroke. He was surrounded by his family. Born June 8,...
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Wake Forest, North Carolina
Age 63 – Died 01/11/2023
Ronald Michael Rosenberg, husband, father, brother, uncle, cousin, and friend, passed away on January 11, 2023, after a two-year battle with stomach cancer. He was 63 years of age and lived in Wake Forest, NC, with his wife of 39 years, Lorie Rosenberg. Ron was born on November...
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Raleigh, North Carolina
Age 68 – Died 01/10/2023
October 23, 1954-Jan 10, 2023 Deborah K Purnell passed away peacefully in her sleep on January 10th, 2023, at Wake Med, Cary, North Carolina. Born in Martinsburg, WV, she was a graduate of Musselman Senior High. She was a mother to many and friends to everyone. Deborah was ...
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Apex, North Carolina
Age 66 – Died 01/09/2023
Donald Keith Burleson passed away on January 9, 2023, at the age of 66. Born on March 25, 1956, Don was the first and only child of Lt. Col. Louis Burleson and Virginia Burleson. Don is survived by his wife of 25 years, Janet, his two children, Andrew and Jennifer, and his two gr...
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Raleigh, North Carolina
Age 82 – Died 01/09/2023
Michael Adrian Fuchs, of Raleigh, NC, passed away on January 9, 2023 at the age of 82, after a long battle with lymphoma and leukemia. Michael was born on October 21, 1940 to Nicholas Fuchs and Margaret (Folk) Fuchs in Sedley, Saskatchewan, Canada. A lifelong academic, Michael...
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Raleigh, North Carolina
Age 68 – Died 01/08/2023
Jo Nell "Joni" Lawhon Rider, 68 peacefully passed away on January 8th, 2023 at her home. Joni was born in Raleigh on November 29, 1954 and lived the majority of her life in Raleigh, NC. Joni had a love for life and animals, especially her beloved cat, George. Despite her physi...
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Raleigh, North Carolina
Age 94 – Died 01/07/2023
Katherine Gordon Haworth passed from this life on January 7, 2023. "Kitty," as she was known to her friends, was born October 1, 1928, in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana to Smith Gordon Haworth and Katie Walker Haworth. After graduating from Louisiana State University and starting he...
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Creedmoor, North Carolina
Age 80 – Died 01/06/2023
Alan, a resident of Creedmoor for nearly 30 years, passed away January 6th at the age of 80. The son of Robert Wolfe, PhD, a physicist and Ruth Wolfe, a nurse, he was born and raised in Rochester, NY. Alan, along with his then-wife, lived and worked throughout the Northeast and N...
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Fuquay Varina, North Carolina
Age 87 – Died 01/05/2023
William "Bill" McKee Palmer, age 87, passed away peacefully on January 5th 2023, surrounded by loved ones. He was born on December 6, 1935 to Elizabeth "Lib" Sawyer and Vernon Palmer. His mother passed when he was just 6 years old, leaving him to be raised by his grandmother. He...
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Durham, North Carolina
Age 55 – Died 01/03/2023
On Tuesday, January 3, John Spicer, a fixture of the Durham restaurant and bar scene, passed away at the age of 55. John grew up with his mother, Norma B. Johns, in Altoona, PA. After moving to Durham in the late 1990s, John discovered his love and talent for cooking at Magnolia ...
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Raleigh, North Carolina
Age 47 – Died 01/01/2023
On the morning of January 1, 2023, Michelle Anne Miller-Higgins of Raleigh died at the age of 47. Michelle was born to David and Bonnie Miller in 1975. Although Michelle lived in several cities around the country while growing, she settled on Raleigh as her home with her husband ...
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Apex, North Carolina
Age 91 – Died 01/01/2023
Arlene Jones was born on September 2, 1931, and died on January 1, 2023. She was 91 years old. Mrs. Jones was predeceased by her parents, John and Catherine Fischer, her husband Frank, her brothers Raymond, Robert, and John Fischer, and her grandson Russell Peter Jones. Her three...
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